A Drifter off to see the World

THE WRITER and THE READER: I believe that the most difficult thing to talk about is about oneself; but amazingly, this is an easy task for most. I, on the other hand, would be very frank that I only describe myself the way I want to be perceived. In a way, it’s a kind of self-advertisement, of which many people are guilty about. But I am not really a complicated person and I don’t have a lot of interesting attributes to share except that I can lock myself the whole day in a room provided there is food, a pen and papers, and most importantly, a good book to read.

I want to write when I’m overwhelmed with any kind of emotion and when I am inspired about anything that surrounds me. I write about my melancholic nights to the hotly debated issue of global warming. When I was 15, my room had to be renovated and in the process lost most of my writings. Hence, I decided to take advantage of technology for my writings’ preservation and at the same time share my musings with others.

Photo credit: Annabee Tiangson

A Drifter Off to See the World is a blog on anything that tickles my imagination, opinion and experience. This is probably one of the aims of immortality, as the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman suggested in his book “Death and Dying” (though his is specifically on writing a book); but I do not intend to immortalize myself, I want to immortalize the words once owned by one of the many vessels of mortality.

THE TRAVELER: My everyday mantra is: “I want to travel the world.” I wish that someday this blog would be a travel documentation of my dream destinations and even those unexpected detours. Traveling for me is all about discovery: a new place and the history that defines it, the people that live in it and breathe for it, more of the journey than the destination. That’s why whenever I get a chance to be a in whole new different place, I try to explore the off-the-beaten path and experience what locals face in their everyday life. It is a bit ambitious, I know, but I am an ambitious person and I am comfortable with that.

Talking about ambition, my ultimate dream is to work for an international NGO and be involved in development work. I have this personal mission of being an instrument for the voiceless to be heard, the invisible to be seen and the minority to be known. My degrees in Sociology and International Relations have helped me develop this aspiration and I am in a lifelong quest to be of such instrument.

Lastly, my name is Dahlia and here is the post on how I got my name. Some asked me why I use TheBlackTwig. It is a product of immaturity, or perhaps innocence if I could put it in a better light, a part of me I willingly embrace. In other words, I tried too hard to be a philosopher once for the sake of self-deprecation.

I hope you enjoy your stay here and do drop a message. It makes me smile. ^_^